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David & Peter McDermott & McGough SIGNATURES
Born 1952/58. Known for: Collaborative painting, homophobia themes, text based.
James Fuentes, 55 Delancey Street, Through Oct. 23. In the East Village in the 1980s, the artists David McDermott and Peter McGough made a striking couple. They dressed as Victorian swells and lived... Read full biography
James Fuentes, 55 Delancey Street, Through Oct. 23. In the East Village in the 1980s, the artists David McDermott and Peter McGough made a striking couple. They dressed as Victorian swells and lived in a home devoid of modern conveniences such as electricity and plumbing. Their art, like that of... Read full biography
James Fuentes, 55 Delancey Street, Through Oct. 23. In the East Village in the 1980s, the artists David McDermott and Peter McGough made a striking couple. They dressed as Victorian swells and lived in a home devoid of modern conveniences such as electricity and plumbing. Their art, like that of the British duo Gilbert and George, consisted both of a continuous, lived performance and of work — paintings, photographs, sculptures, films — that the performance produced. A text-based painting in... Read full biography
James Fuentes, 55 Delancey Street, Through Oct. 23. In the East Village in the 1980s, the artists David McDermott and Peter McGough made a striking couple. They dressed as Victorian swells and lived in a home devoid of modern conveniences such as electricity and plumbing. Their art, like that of the British duo Gilbert and George, consisted both of a continuous, lived performance and of work — paintings, photographs, sculptures, films — that the performance produced. A text-based painting in the 1987 Whitney Biennial brought them wide attention. Titled A Friend of Dorothy, 1943, it was composed entirely of old-time homosexual slurs: fairy, pansy, nellie, etc. Although in the present era of same-sex marriage, it’s easy to forget the stir... Read full biography
James Fuentes, 55 Delancey Street, Through Oct. 23. In the East Village in the 1980s, the artists David McDermott and Peter McGough made a striking couple. They dressed as Victorian swells and lived in a home devoid of modern conveniences such as electricity and plumbing. Their art, like that of the British duo Gilbert and George, consisted both of a continuous, lived performance and of work — paintings, photographs, sculptures, films — that the performance produced. A text-based painting in the 1987 Whitney Biennial brought them wide attention. Titled A Friend of Dorothy, 1943, it was composed entirely of old-time homosexual slurs: fairy, pansy, nellie, etc. Although in the present era of same-sex marriage, it’s easy to forget the stir the painting once caused, the artists set out to remind us in their current show at James Fuentes. The painting’s words appear... Read full biography
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